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CFP: LASA 2018 BARCELONA, SPAIN / MAY 23 – 26, 2018 Panel: ‘Sacred Cinema in Latin America / Cine sagrado en América Latina’ The relationship between cinema and religion has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning Ida (2014) and works such as Habemus Papam (Nanni Moretti, 2011) and Kreuzweg (Dietrich Brüggemann, 2014) have led some critics to identify a fresh engagement with the legacies of Christianity in European filmmaking. While scholarship that directly addresses the place of religion in Latin American cinema is rather more limited, recent years have witnessed a similar focus on the religious, the sacred, and the spiritual in contemporary cinematic production. For example, recent films such as Pablo Larraín’s El club (2015) and Lucrecia Martel’s La niña santa (2004) have interrogated the place of religious belief and religious institutions in modern Latin American society, while documentary and ethnographic filmmakers in the region have sought to record the spiritual and ritualistic practices of diverse indigenous groups in the context of an increasingly globalised world. These same practices have also continued to provide inspiration (at times problematically) for numerous fiction films. Concurrently with these developments, the expanding influence of both post-humanism and new materialism in Latin American film criticism (particularly through the work of such thinkers as Eduardo Kohn and Jane Bennett) has arguably led to a more spiritual engagement with the cinematic arts, although it is not always addressed in such terms. Focussing directly on how film deals with issues of faith and doubt, authority and abuse, the spiritual and the irreverent, this panel aims to expand the field of Latin American cultural studies by placing ‘the sacred’ at the centre of its critical concern. To that end, we invite proposals for papers, in English or Spanish, which engage with topics such as (but not limited to): · The phenomenological analysis of film and religion as practices of signification and world-making; · The use of film as a method of denouncing institutional abuse and its political implications; · The relationship between cinema and Non-Christian religions and belief systems in Latin America (i.e. immigrant and indigenous faiths and practices); · The ritualistic relationship between cinema-going and church-going, between film spectatorship and liturgical experience; · The development and use of Catholic, evangelical, or other religious filmic aesthetics; · Theological interpretations of cinematic texts. This panel will be convened by Niall Geraghty (ILAS, University of London) and Paul Merchant (University of Bristol). Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by the 14th of August to [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------- BAFTSS mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the BAFTSS list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=baftss ------------------------------------------------------- This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members of BAFTSS. --------------------------------------------------------